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Japan turns abandoned golf courses into solar farms

Original: Mountainous, densely populated Japan has little land available for large solar farms, so developers are erecting arrays

Japan, mountainous and densely populated, has little open land for large solar installations. Developers are increasingly building solar arrays on the many golf courses abandoned after the country's 1980s economic boom, repurposing disused leisure land for renewable energy. The approach is being cited as a practical example of how land-scarce countries can expand clean power without competing for farmland or residential space.

Why now: Interest in creative land use for renewable energy as countries race to expand solar capacity.

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• Mountainous, densely populated Japan has little land available for large solar farms, so developers are erecting arrays on many of the now disused golf courses that proliferated during the country's 1980s economic boom. Read more on E360 → https://… · gclef@vivaldi.net · 13

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